Transmitter-modulation and possible function of plateau properties in mammalian motoneurones – Ole Kiehn (p.35)

In the early 1950s Eccles and collaborators introduced intracellular recordings from mammalian spinal motoneurones. They concluded that these cells possess a simple set of ionic conductances and that local synaptic events spread passively along dendrites to the soma where a more or less linear summation of postsynaptic potentials ultimately may lead to action potential generation.